No Links With Bhima Koregaon Case, Being Harassed: Kolkata Activist

Kolkata:

Days after the Nationwide Investigating Company summoned IISER-Kolkata professor Partho Sarothi Ray for wondering in reference to the Bhima Koregaon violence in 2018, the scientist and social activist on Sunday mentioned he had not anything to do with the incident and the probe company was once seeking to “harass him, as has been the case with different intellectuals”.

Mr Ray additionally mentioned that there was once no rate towards him, and he had by no means visited the Bhima Koregaon memorial in Pune.

“The company (NIA) has summoned me as a witness within the case, underneath phase 160 CrPC. Subsequently, there are not any fees towards me. I don’t have any reference to this situation as I’ve by no means been to Bhima Koregaon. I wasn’t even conscious about the incident until I examine it within the newspapers,” he instructed PTI.

The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has issued a understand to Mr Ray, who may be the convenor of Persecuted Prisoners Cohesion Committee (PPSC) West Bengal unit, asking him to seem for wondering in its Mumbai place of work on September 10 in reference to the Bhima Koregaon violence.

The case relates to an incident of caste violence that came about close to the Bhima Koregaon conflict memorial on January 1, 2018, following alleged provocative speeches at Elgar Parishad conclave an afternoon previous. A number of automobiles have been torched and one individual killed within the incident, triggering massive scale dalit agitation in Maharashtra.

“That is not anything however a tactic to bother and intimidate me, as is being completed with teachers and intellectuals in all places India. I’m a biomedical scientist who has been concerned within the struggle towards COVID-19. I’ve additionally stood persistently at the facet of the persecuted and deprived. It is vitally unlucky that I am being confused on this approach at this essential time,” he mentioned